The Last Stand (2013)

After leaving his LAPD narcotics post following a bungled operation that left him wracked with remorse and regret, Sheriff Ray Owens (Schwarzenegger) moved out of Los Angeles and settled into a life fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Junction. But that peaceful existence is shattered when Gabriel Cortez (Eduardo Noriega), the most notorious, wanted drug kingpin in the western hemisphere, makes a deadly yet spectacular escape from an FBI prisoner convoy.

With the help of a fierce band of lawless mercenaries led by the icy Burrell (Peter Stormare), Cortez begins racing towards the US-Mexico border at 250 mph in a specially-outfitted Corvette ZR1 with a hostage in tow. Cortez’ path: straight through Summerton Junction, where the whole of the U.S. law enforcement, including Agent John Bannister (Forest Whitaker) will have their final opportunity to intercept him before the violent fugitive slips across the border forever.

At first reluctant to become involved, and then counted out because of the perceived ineptitude of his small town force, Owens ultimately rallies his team and takes the matter into his own hands, setting the stage for a classic showdown.

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in The Last Stand, the focus is mostly on the veteran action hero. However, Schwarzenegger is not the hero of this exclusive Blu-ray bonus clip. Instead, director Kim Ji-Woon is. The South Korean director has found success with films like A Tale of Two Sisters and A Bittersweet Life, but his first film in the US—and in English—is The Last Stand.

The Last Stand is teaming up with Lionsgate in a last-ditch effort to attempt to make money on the project. The Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle is getting a rather quick turnaround onto Blu-ray, DVD, digital download and On Demand. An earlier digital download release is becoming a popular trend and The Last Stand will be no exception, with digital downloads available on April 30th. The Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand versions of the flick will be available three weeks later, on May 21

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Martin Luther King Jr. weekend brought with it the first Schwarzenegger headlined movie in almost a decade, something of a box office coup for the award season's darling Silver Linings Playbook, and somewhere in there President Obama officially started his second term. But the most interesting bit of news? The number one spot went to a PG-13 horror movie.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is nothing short of a movie legend. Movies like Predator, The Terminator, Conan The Barbarian, Commando, and True Lies are some of the best examples of the modern action genre and to many he’s nothing short of a big screen icon. But it’s not just his legacy that his The Last Stand co-star Jaimie Alexander wants to emulate as she develops as an actor.

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Next week Arnold Schwarzenegger is back onscreen in his first starring role since becoming Governor of California, and he seems to have brought all the firepower and muscle in the world along with him. In The Last Stand he plays the sheriff of a Texas border town becomes, well, the last stand of defense in the United States about a drug cartel leader who has escaped custody

Long before he was governor, the biggest action star in the world, or even named Mr. Universe for the first time Arnold Schwarzenegger served a year in the Austrian army. Part of a mandatory one-year commitment that all 18-year-old Austrian men have to serve, the future movie star served in a platoon with an M47 Patton tank. But the giant green monster was more than just a just a war machine and a transport.

When it comes to Arnold Schwarzenegger action movies, the equation for success is quite simple: give the star plenty of guns, allow him to bring the beat down on all of the bad guys, and always load up all of his dialogue with the best one-liners you can think of. And that's exactly what the brand new red band trailer for The Last Stand does.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's heyday was during the 1980s - that was about 30 years ago. He made the muscles and guns flicks he made because he had the muscles and he looked good holding a gun, but just like it does for all of us, time has taken its toll on the action legend. Thankfully, now that he's in the second half of his career - the part following his term as Governor of California - he is easing into it by playing an aging sheriff in The Last Stand.

Fresh off this summer's hit The Expendables 2, and a newly published memoir about his undeniably fascinating life, Arnold Schwarzenegger is heading back to theaters faster that you probably realize, with the upcoming action film The Last Stand. Playing the sheriff of a border town who must stop the leader of a drug cartel from making it back to Mexico

The time of small cameos has passed and now comes the time for being back in starring roles. This January Arnold Schwarzenegger will finally be back on the big screen for more than 10 minutes in The Last Stand, the American debut of I Saw The Devil filmmaker Jee-woon Kim, and today we get our first look at what the film will be like.

Arnold Schwarzenegger will be back in theaters with the gang from The Expendables this Friday, but unlike the last time he cameoed in a movie he's sticking around in Hollywood. His newest film, The Last Stand, will be heading to theaters this January and today we have the first poster:

Arnold Schwarzenegger has a number of projects in the works, among which is the starring role in The Last Stand, Jee-Woon Kim's action feature. We now have a look at the movie, and what this photo lacks in background detail, it makes up for with a very determined looking Schwarzenegger, who's rocking some serious aviator sunglasses.

Schwarzenegger reportedly will begin filming Black Sunday, an action/sci-fi thriller that once was known as Black Sands and casts the brute as an immortal. “I’m kind of an angel,” Schwarzenegger says, though he stops short of elaborating on any specific plot details after that

I think we’re all slightly interested in The Last Stand to see how the director of The Good, the Bad and the Weird figures out how to use this once-great action hero who might be past his prime. At least, from the looks of the Twit pic, Ah-nold’s giving it all that he has … spilling blood for the benefit of a stunt. Unless he tripped on his cane and banged his head on his trailer door. We may never know.

Ex-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is settling into his post-political return to acting with gusto. In addition to taking on a bigger role in the Expendables sequel, Schwarzenegger is currently in the midst of filming on The Last Stand, starring Arnie as well Forest Whitaker, Johnny Knoxville, Jaimie Alexander, and more. Earlier this week the aging action star tweeted a behind-the-scenes shot from the set, featuring him alongside Luiz Guzman, Knoxville, and Alexander.

Production has commenced already for Jee-woon Kim’s The Last Stand, but it looks like they’re putting the finishing touches to what has shaped up to be a pretty great looking cast. Joining The Last Stand is Genesis Rodriguez, whose recent roles included a part on Entourage, and the upcoming Asger Leth film Man on a Ledge.

The Kim Jee-Woon directed action flick Last Stand has been slowly but surely building a solid cast, however the film was short one crucial player: The villain of the film, who may be facing off against Arnold Schwarzenegger at some point, had yet to be cast, until today.

Alexander would play Sarah Torrance, a deputy to Schwarzenegger’s border-town cop who must stand up to the leader of a massive drug cartel who is making a mad dash for the Mexico border. Schwarzenegger and his team, which will also include Rodrigo Santoro (300), must prevent the criminals from reaching the border… and lawless freedom.

After watching him play the adorable, humble, sometimes-shy, but always capable Matt Saracen on Friday Night Lights for five seasons, it isn’t hard to picture actor Zach Gilford taking on the role of a young cop working in a small town on the Mexican border. Based on this latest bit of casting news, that’s exactly what he’ll be doing.

As though it weren't exciting enough that this project is Kim Jee-Woon's first English-language film and will be Arnold Schwarzenegger's first big film following his political career, The Last Stand is starting to develop an interesting supporting cast. As the start date gets closer and closer, with any luck that pattern will continue.

While I would hate to sound like I'm minimizing his talents, Stormare is at his best when playing a villain, or, at the very least, someone unhinged. Hopefully the script calls for his character to be a complete psycho that Schwarzenegger has to put down like a mad dog. The question remains, however: if you have Schwarzenegger as the hero and Stormare as the muscle, who do you get for the big baddie?

Kim Jee-Woon’s The Last Stand, better known as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first movie project since leaving political office, will open over next year’s Martin Luther King Day holiday (Jan. 18, specifically), according to Lionsgate. The film casts Arnie as a disgraced LAPD officer who bolts Southern California and retires to a sleepy Mexico border town.

It's been a long, strange year for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Leaving his seat as the governor of California, he announced that he would be returning to the big screen and signed on to multiple projects, including another Terminator movie and the horse trainer-drama Cry Macho. Then everything got turned upside down as it was revealed that he had impregnated one of his employees fourteen years ago and his wife, Maria Shriver, filed for divorce.

It looks like Arnold may be returning to what he does best after all; according to THR he is deep into negotiations with Lionsgate to make The Last Stand, a crime thriller in which he'd star as a bordertown sheriff trying to stop a Mexican drug cartel leader from crossing the border